Computer hard drive failure? (Computer & Hardware Questions)

by mike, Wednesday, March 03, 2010, 07:54 (190 days ago)

My PC crashed before christmas and now i cannot install windows updates. I ran belarc advisor and it said i have a hard drive failure which seems to make my computer run very slow. I had to run the start-up disc to get it running again after it crashed and defragemented the hard drive but nothing seems to resolve the problem. Is there anything i can do short of having a new hard drive installed?